Vets for Peace #156 in Boatnik Parade 2010
Reported by Allen Hallmark, Member VfP #156, 29.05.2010 19:43
Grants Pass, Oregon - Memorial Day, 2010
Congratulations, Hal, Jim, Loree and all who worked so hard to put together our Veterans for Peace, Rogue Valley Chapter 156, entry in today's massive Boatnik parade in Grants Pass. The huge Peace Dove with the olive branch in her beak was gorgeous and impressive. It's difficult to believe how big this parade is -- our group was lucky to go down the street early and by the time we walked back to where we started, more than an hour later, there were still many groups waiting to start their journey.
Attached are a few photos that I snapped along the way (click on any to make larger)
Peace and joy to you all this Memorial Day weekend,
Allen
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VfP #72 hosts Memorial Day event in Portland 04.06.2010 - 05:25 Video from the Memorial Day 2010 event sponsored and hosted by Veterans for Peace, Chapter 72. "Memorial Day 2010" story and clip are at the Portland IMC:  http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2010/06/399968.shtml
Video Clip provided by Jim Lockhart>  Homepage:: http://
Grants Pass highlighted on National VfP Web 04.06.2010 - 22:53 The Following words are a report-back about Memorial Day 2010. Several other Boatnik photos can be viewed on the national Veterans for Peace website plus you can read Memorial Day VfP reports from all around the country, including... Bandon, Oregon! ******************************************************************************************** Veterans For Peace Memorial Day Events - 2010 http://www.veteransforpeace.org/Memorial_day_2010.vp.html ******************************************************************************************** Grants Pass, OR This year, our second year in the Grants Pass Boatnik/Memorial Day Parade, Jim Woods suggested, then lead a BigBirdBuild Team for the Boatnik and the Ashland 4th of July parades. Our entry was a representation of a giant 21' wingtip-to-wingtip dove made from white bed sheets and, while being in sharp contrast to the military entries preceding us, was very well received in this city where the last white sheet parade entry a few years ago was by the KKK. We are steadily making our presence and principles known. VfP eyes on peace> Homepage:: http://
Same Hallmark as the one from ETSU? 09.06.2010 - 23:36 If this might be the same Allen Hallmark who helped bring civil rights to Commerce when a journalism student at ETSU (or if someone reading this knows), a professor in the English department is really hoping to get in touch. My second book will focus on how progressive rhetoric might function in local publics in small, conservative towns. Leading me to an extended case study of the Norris Community Club in those earliest years. During our extensive interviews with folks like Billy Reed and Ivory Moore, Hallmarks name comes up all the time. We just learned from an inactive membership record in the Texas A&M-Commerce Alumni Center that Hallmark was once in Oregon. Hoping this is reach him if this is the same Allen Hallmark. He has many admirers here, me included. I can be reached at  shannon_carter@tamu-commerce.edu or cartershannon@tamu-commerce.edu
Shannon Carter>  e-mail:: shannon_carter@tamu-commerce.edu
Homepage:: http://www.shannoncarter.net
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